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Murrine logo #10101) Glass art
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Murrine

Murrine logo #21000 Murrina (common pluralization murrine) is an Italian term for colored patterns or images made in a glass cane (long rods of glass) that are revealed when cut in cross-sections. Murrine can be made in infinite designs—some styles are more familiar, such as millefiori. Artists working in glass design murrine in a variety of ways from simple circul...
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Murrine

Murrine logo #20466Short lengths or slices of canes (including millefiori), used in mosaic glass, or picked up onto the gather or paraison from the marver before or during blowing, and therefore sometimes smeared or distorted in the finished article (also spelt Murrhine)
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Murrine

Murrine logo #21217Murrine vases were priceless vessels brought from Carmania in Persia and used in ancient Rome as wine cups where it was believed they would break if poison was mixed with the wine.
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